Strident and unvaried, this one-joke farce is as silly and lazy as any third-rate sitcom.
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05/10/05
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Monster-in-Law (2005)
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Reviews Counted:161
Fresh:25
Rotten:136
Average Rating:4.2/10
Consensus: While Jane Fonda steals the movie in her return to the screen, a tired script and flimsy performances make this borderline comedy fall flat.
Theatrical Release:2005
Box Office: $82,820,167
Synopsis: Charlie (Jennifer Lopez) is looking for a nice guy who will appreciate her, as well as her myriad of interests and jobs. From walking dogs to painting to designing clothes to answering phones at a... [More]
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Jane Fonda, Michael Vartan, Wanda Sykes
Director: Robert Luketic
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Reviews for Monster-in-Law
Fiendishly good fun.
05/10/05
Lots of potential for laughs but few if any genuinely funny moments.
05/09/05
...Jane Fonda probably should have stayed retired (the actress emerged from a 15-year sabbatical for this?)
05/09/05
The experience of viewing this movie represents a one-way ticket into tedium and a forced 90-minute imprisonment with Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda, both of whom give performances that can charitably be called cringe-inducing.
05/08/05
Top CriticJane Fonda digs into her part with such campy relish that she seems to be having an actor's holiday in an otherwise overly campy, calculated and uninspired comedy.
05/07/05
The script can't even get from A to B without the seams showing.
05/06/05
A deeply dispiriting movie, not just because it is grindingly bad but because Jane Fonda actually chose this for her comeback after a 15-year absence from the screen.
05/06/05
Top Critica particularly uninspired sitcom that's desperately recycling hack-material at cyclone speed to no avail
05/05/05
Knockabout comic is just the latest incarnation in Fonda's life so far. Let her rip.
05/04/05
Top CriticThe movie might have been better served had it simply tossed out the Lopez character and given us more of Fonda.
05/03/05
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